APP.COM - Car likely recalled for loose steering bolt | Asbury Park Press Online: "The car in which three Freehold High School students were killed in a fiery crash Wednesday was a 2003 Cadillac CTS that was likely included in a vehicle recall to repair defective steering, a spokesman for General Motors, the car's manufacturer, said Friday.
And, according to accident investigation experts, the Cadillac was almost surely struck near its gas tank — in the rear — for it to burst into flames, as law enforcement officials have said it did.
'Typically, it's in rear-end crashes where the gas tank is ruptured that you get a huge fireball,' said Michael D. Leshner of Columbia, Md., an expert in car fire and explosion investigations.
That could suggest the Cadillac, which was traveling south on Kozloski Road in Freehold, and the van it collided with, which was traveling north, may not have struck head-on."
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